Sunday, March 9, 2014

Why does America spend some much time hurting people of the world? My brother & I though the last war we would ever have in America was Vietnam! What happen America?

Re-blogged:

http://www.vintag.es/2011/02/35-years-after-fall-vietnam-war-in.html

35 years after the fall: The Vietnam War in picture

U.S. military
action in Vietnam was a piece in the global Cold War struggle. After
Vietnamese nationalists overthrew French colonialists in the 1950s, the
country was divided between the Communist north and the anti-Communist
south. In the ensuing conflict, Washington backed the south, fearing
that a Communist takeover could cascade through Southeast Asia. The
first U.S. forces engaged in the conflict in secret, by way of Cambodia.
As the civil war intensified in the 1960s, the United States expanded
its operations in the region, deploying some 3 million American troops
over time, but U.S. forces struggled to gain ground as they fought in
difficult and unfamiliar terrain against extremely capable in guerrilla
fighters. As the war dragged on and casualties mounted, opposition to
the war exploded. By the time American forces withdrew in 1975 and
Saigon fell to Ho Chi Minh's Communists, 58,000 Americans and between 1
million and 2 million Vietnamese had died. It was the longest war in
U.S. history and the most unpopular American war of the 20th century. In
this 1965 photo, paratroopers cross a river in the rain near Ben Cat,
in the south.

The South
Vietnamese regime backed by the United States in the early days of the
conflict was notoriously corrupt and authoritarian. President Ngo Dinh
Diem, who was part of the Catholic minority, populated his government
and military with Catholics, fomenting widespread unrest among the
country's Buddhist majority. In this image taken June 11, 1963, Buddhist
monk Quang Duc burns himself to death at a busy Saigon intersection to
protest persecution of Buddhists. The picture came to represent the
failure of the Diem regime and a growing public relations problem for
the U.S. Several months later, Diem was overthrown, executed and buried
in an unmarked grave.

Hovering U.S.
Army helicopters pour machine gun fire into a tree line to cover the
advance of South Vietnamese ground troops in March 1965. The troops were
moving to attack a Viet Cong camp northwest of Saigon near the
Cambodian border.

A Vietnamese man
holds the body of his child as South Vietnamese Army Rangers look down
from their armored vehicle near the Cambodian border on March 19, 1964.

An unidentified U.S. Army soldier sports the slogan "War Is Hell" on his helmet in Vietnam on June 18, 1965.

A South
Vietnamese soldier beats a farmer with the blunt end of a knife for
allegedly supplying inaccurate information about the movement of Viet
Cong guerrillas in a village west of Saigon. Jan. 9, 1964.

U.S. Marines
emerge from their muddy foxholes at sunrise after a third night of
attacks by North Vietnamese troops on Sept. 21, 1966.

The body of an
American paratrooper killed in action near the Cambodian border is
raised to an evacuation helicopter in Vietnam in 1966. More than 58,000
Americans were killed and 350,000 wounded in the war.

Women and
children crouch in a muddy canal as they take cover from intense Viet
Cong fire at Bao Trai, about 20 miles west of Saigon on Jan. 1, 1966.

Wounded Marine
Gunnery Sgt. Jeremiah Purdie is led past stricken comrades after a
fierce firefight for control of Hill 484 south of Vietnam's
demilitarized zone in 1966.

U.S. Army
helicopters providing support for ground troops fly into a staging area
50 miles northeast of Saigon in South Vietnam in 1966.

U.S. Army medic James E. Callahan of Pittsfield, Mass., tends to a seriously wounded soldier north of Saigon in June 1967.

American
infantrymen crowd into a mud-filled bomb crater and look up at tall
jungle trees seeking out Viet Cong snipers firing at them during a
battle in Phuoc Vinh, north-northeast of Saigon on June 15, 1967.

A soldier of the
U.S. Seventh Marines carries a puppy in his pocket after rescuing it
during an operation southwest of Da Nang in Vietnam on Jan. 22, 1968.

A South Vietnamese woman mourns over the body of her husband, found with 47 others in a mass grave near Hue in April 1969.

South Vietnamese
Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, chief of the national police, shoots suspected
Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem, also known as Bay Lop, on a Saigon
street on Feb. 1, 1968.

In his first year
in office, President Richard Nixon speaks with U.S. soldiers during a
surprise visit to South Vietnam on July 30, 1969. After coming to office
that January, Nixon escalated the war. But he later negotiated a
ceasefire with North Vietnam that led to the American withdrawal.

U.S. Navy
personnel aboard the USS Blue Ridge push a helicopter into the sea off
the coast of Vietnam in order to make room for more evacuation flights
from Saigon on April 29, 1975.

A South
Vietnamese mother and her three children on the deck of an amphibious
command ship being after being airlifted out of Saigon by U.S. Marine
helicopters on April 29, 1975.

A North
Vietnamese tank rolls through the gate of the Presidential Palace in
Saigon, marking the fall of South Vietnam to Communist forces on April
30, 1975. Saigon was rennamed Ho Chi Minh City, and the country was
unified under Communist rule.

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